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Witness History Episodes

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    The Attica Prison Riot

    In September 1971 prisoners in a high security jail in the US rose up against their guards

  2. The Chile Coup

    In September 1973 General Pinochet launched a coup in Chile. Ariel Dorfman was there.

  3. HMS Trinidad

    George Lloyd, a young English composer, wrote a march for the ship he served on in WWII

  4. Special Operations Executive

    During WWII Britain set up a secret organisation to wage war in Nazi occupied Europe

  5. Fleeing from Laos

    In 1973 the American war against communism in Laos ended leaving their allies behind

  6. Jack The Ripper

    In September 1888, the most famous serial killer in history stalked the streets of London.

  7. Eritrea's Long War

    A doctor who took part in Eritrea's 30 year struggle for independence from Ethiopia

  8. Women Murdered in Mexico

    In 1993 young women began disappearing in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez.

  9. Aboriginal Strike

    The first ever strike by Australian Aborigines to help free them from virtual slavery

  10. I Have a Dream

    Martin Luther King made his historic plea for racial equality at the March on Washington

  11. The Sherri Finkbine Abortion Case

    How one Arizona couple's campaign for a termination split America in 1962

  12. Krakatoa

    In 1883, the Indonesian volcano caused one of the world's biggest disasters

  13. The Ballerina and the Coup

    In 1959, Dame Margot Fonteyn was part of a bizarre plot to overthrow the Panama government

  14. Brazil Protests: Caras Pintadas

    In 1992, a huge wave of protests forced President Collor of Brazil from office.

  15. Legionnaires' Disease

    In August 1976 more than 200 people developed a mystery illness at a hotel in Philadelphia

  16. The Assassination of Benigno Aquino

    On August 21 1983, the opposition leader, Benigno Aquino, was shot dead in the Philippines

  17. Prague Spring

    The student who appealed for the world's help when Soviet tanks invaded Czechoslovakia

  18. Saddam Hussein's 'Human Shields'

    The British family who were held as 'human shields' in Iraq before the First Gulf War

  19. The Nepali Royal Massacre

    In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and then turned the gun on himself.

  20. Stanley Kubrick

    Set designer Sir Ken Adam recalls working with the famously difficult director

  21. The Omagh Bombing

    In August 1998, 29 people died in a massive car bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland.

  22. The Battle of the Potato Beetle

    In 1950, East Germany claimed American planes were dropping beetles over their fields.

  23. Scientists Flee Nazi Germany

    How the rise of Hitler forced great physicists such as Max Born out of 1930s Germany

  24. Conflict in Congo

    The Congolese student who saw war come to his small hometown of Uvira

  25. The Opening of Euro Disney

    Twenty-one years ago, Disney finally opened a park near Paris after years of negotiations.

  26. Bombing of Nagasaki

    Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945

  27. Burma's 1988 Protests

    In August 1988 protests demanding an end to military rule in Burma were met with violence

  28. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

    In 1997, a patch of plastic waste was discovered in the middle of the Pacific Ocean

  29. Beverly Johnson - Vogue's First Black Covergirl

    It wasn't until 1974 that American Vogue put a black model on its cover for the first time

  30. Malaysian Hostage Crisis

    In August 1975, Japanese Red Army militants took 53 people hostage in Kuala Lumpur

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